Another (yawn) peak demand for Xcel
February 22nd, 2019
And yet another year where Xcel, errrrrr, NSP, had a lackluster peak demand. That’s a good thing, verification that we can get along with a lot less coal and nuclear. And it’s also good as proof that of those Certificates of Need, based on their bogus “modeling” predicting 2.49% annual increase, we could jettison how many of those projects? How much infrastructure was built that clearly wasn’t needed, at least by their justifications? Billions, right? How much will ratepayers be refunded given all these unnecessary projects based on bogus projections?
Here are the details:
And looking at it another way:
Here’s the primary doc — Xcel’s 2018 10-K, just search for “peak demand” and there it is:
So now can we get all that unneeded transmission yanked up and hauled to the salvage yard?